Laurel Award

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other Laurel Awards, see the Golden Laurel Award from the Producers Guild of America, Laurel Award from the Writers Guild of America, and the Olympic Laurel Award from the International Olympic Committee.

The Laurel Awards were US national film awards , presented annually from 1948 to 1968 and from 1970 to 1971 to the best films and filmmakers of the previous year. The winners, who were awarded the Golden Laurel ( German  Golden Laurel ), were selected in a survey by the Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine of American and Canadian movie theater owners. In contrast to other film prizes such as the Oscar or the Golden Globes , the Laurel Awards did not have an award ceremony. The results of the survey were published in Motion Picture Exhibitor Magazine, usually in September of each year.

Categories

On September 10, 1958, winners were selected in twenty-three different categories. In some categories up to fifteen filmmakers were presented in descending order.

Categories	Original designation
Best action drama	Top action drama
Best drama	Top drama
Best comedy	Top comedy
Best musical	Top musical
Best entertainment film	Top general entertainment
Best producer / director	Top producer / director
Best producer	Top producer
Best director	Top Director
Best Actor in an Action Film	Top Male Action Star
Best male star	Top Male Star
Best female star	Top female star
Best Actor in a Drama	Top Male Dramatic Performance
Best Actress in a Drama	Top female dramatic performance
Best Actor in a Comedy	Top male comedy performance
Best Actress in a Comedy	Top female comedy performance
Best Actor in a Musical	Top Male Musical Performance
Best Actress in a Musical	Top female musical performance
Best supporting actor	Top Male Supporting Performance
The best supporting actress	Top female supporting performance
Best young actor	Top New Male Personality
Best Young Actress	Top New Female Personality
Best film composer	Top music composer
Best music choreographer	Top music director

Award winners

Up until 1970, the Laurel Awards honored film productions in five different categories, separated by genre. At the last ceremony in 1971, however with was Franklin J. Schaffner's Oscar -gekrönter biopic Patton - Rebell in Uniform abandoned the winner only in a film category.

The winners from 1958 to 1971:

year	Best action drama	Best drama	Best comedy	Best musical	Best entertainment film
1958	Two pay off Director: John Sturges	Embers Under the Ashes Director: Mark Robson	Ariane - Love in the Afternoon Director: Billy Wilder	Pal Joey Director: George Sidney	His Friend Jello Directed by Robert Stevenson
1959	The Vikings Director: Richard Fleischer	As long as there are people Director: Douglas Sirk	Houseboat Director: Melville Shavelson	Gigi * Director: Vincente Minnelli	The great aunt Director: Morton DaCosta
1960	The Invisible Third Director: Alfred Hitchcock	Anatomy of a Murder Director: Otto Preminger	Bettgeflüster Director: Michael Gordon	Can-Can Director: Walter Lang	The Eerie Zotti Director: Charles Barton
1961	Alamo Director: John Wayne	Elmer Gantry Director: Richard Brooks	Das Appartement * Directed by Billy Wilder	Pepe - What can the world cost? Director: George Sidney	The Flying Timpani Director: Robert Stevenson
1962	El Cid Director: Anthony Mann	The Guns of Navarone Directed by J. Lee Thompson	A pajama for two Directed by Delbert Mann	West Side Story * Director: Robert Wise	Announcing the wedding of their parents Directed by David Swift
1963	The Longest Day Directed by Ken Annakin , Andrew Marton , Bernhard Wicki and Darryl F. Zanuck	The Days of Wine and Roses Director: Blake Edwards	A Touch of Mink Directed by Delbert Mann	Music Man Director: Morton DaCosta	Who disturbs the nightingale Director: Robert Mulligan
1964	MacLintock Director: Andrew V. McLaglen	The wildest among a thousand Direction: Martin Ritt	Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows * Director: Tony Richardson	not known	Lilies on the Field Director: Ralph Nelson
1965	Goldfinger Director: Guy Hamilton	The Insatiable Directed by Edward Dmytryk	The Big Wolf is Calling Director: Ralph Nelson	Gold Digger Molly Director: Charles Walters	Mary Poppins Director: Robert Stevenson
1966	Fireball Directed by Terence Young	Doctor Zhivago Director: David Lean	Cat Ballou - You Shall Hang in Wyoming Director: Elliot Silverstein	Dominique - The Singing Nun Director: Henry Koster	My songs - my dreams * Director: Robert Wise
1967	The Feared Four Directed by Richard Brooks	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Directed by Mike Nichols	Modern Millie Director: George Roy Hill	not known	A man for every season * Director: Fred Zinnemann
1968	Bonnie and Clyde Director: Arthur Penn	In the Heat of the Night * Director: Norman Jewison	A Strange Couple Directed by Gene Saks	not known	Yours, mine, our Direction: Melville Shavelson
1969	Prize not awarded
1970	Two Bandits Director: George Roy Hill	Asphalt-Cowboy * Director: John Schlesinger	Damn Innocence Directed by Larry Peerce	Oliver * Director: Carol Reed	The Marshal Director: Henry Hathaway
1971	Patton - Rebel in Uniform * Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

* = Film productions at the Academy Awards as best film of the year were awarded

Web links

• Laurel Awards in the Internet Movie Database (winners from 1958)